State Wise Quarantine Regulations Updated as on: 23th April 2021

Disclaimer –It is the sole responsibility of the passenger to ensure his or her
eligibility to comply with the entry regulations of the respective State
Government. Air India, Air India Express and their subsidiaries accept no
liability in this regard.

1. Andaman
All incoming passengers from the mainland have to undergo compulsory Home Quarantine for 7
days irrespective of being tested negative.
Any person Violating the above direction shall be liable to be fined to the tune of Rs 5000/- each
time.
All the passengers proceeding SWARAJ DWEEP (Formally Havelock Island), SHAHEED DWEEP
(Formally Neil Island) and
Little Andaman shall invariably undergo 10 days mandatory Home Quarantine irrespective of being
tested Negative.
Any person violating the above direction shall be liable to be fined to the tune of Rs 5000/- each
time
All incoming passengers arriving at VSI Airport, shall have to mandatorily carry RT-PCR
negative test report issued from a ICMR recognized lab, subject to condition that the RT-
PCR test should have been taken within 48 hours prior to the commencement of journey.

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2. Andhra Pradesh

All passengers traveling to Andhra Pradesh must enrol themselves on the Spandana
website https://www.spandana.ap.gov.in/ , before their travel.
All asymptomatic passengers arriving at Andhra Pradesh will have to undergo home
quarantine for 14 days.

3. Assam
Update as on 22nd April 2021 –

All arriving passengers will have to undergo compulsory home quarantine for 7 days, even if the result of
COVID-19 test undergone on arrival, is negative. However, Government officials and those travelling due
to medical reasons and family bereavement are exempted from this mandatory 7-day home quarantine.

For circular dated 13 April 2021 CLICK HERE

All passengers arriving from Mumbai & Bengaluru disembarking in any airport in Assam will
mandatorily need to carry a negative RT-PCR report, conducted within 72 Hrs prior to the
departure, W.E.F 09th April, 2021.
All other asymptomatic passengers arriving at Assam with same day return
tickets are exempted from quarantine.
Other passengers without symptoms will have to undergo a combined institutional and home
quarantine for at least 14 days. Period of institutional quarantine will be for 7 days or till the
test results come in, whichever is less.

Asymptomatic passengers from the list below, are exempted from institutional
quarantine, but will have to undergo home quarantine:
Pregnant women.
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Elderly person, over 75 years and requiring assistance. Person due to attend funeral and rituals associated
with death of an immediate relative.
Children below 10 years of age along with their parents & siblings of Immediate relative of

hospitalized patient Patients who have recently undergone cardiac, kidney, cancer

treatment/surgery/transplant.Husband and wife travelling together and also their children

and/or parents accompanyingthem, if any.

4. Bihar

Passengers coming from Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala to Patna are required to carry out RTPCR
Test 72 hours prior to departure. 10 days of home quarantine is mandatory for all these
passengers.
Passengers coming from Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala and New Delhi to Gaya are required to
carry out RTPCR Test 72 hours prior to departure.

All passengers arriving from the states of Delhi, Gujarat & Madhya Pradesh will be
tested for COVID-19, and those found positive shall be directed to pursue the SOP issued by the
Health Department, of the Government of Bihar.
However, "the following passengers will be exempted from the COVID-19 testing"

i. Passengers holding Negative Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) report conducted within 24 hrs
before departure.
ii. Passengers holding Negative RT-PCR test report conducted within 72 hrs before
departure.
iii. Passengers holding COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate or having been
All administered with both the doses of vaccination and have completed 14 days after the second
dose.

5. Delhi
A negative RT-PCR report (not older than 72 hours prior to undertaking the journey) shall be
compulsory for all such persons who are arriving from Maharashtra to Delhi. The passengers
who are found without a negative report will have to remain quarantine for 14 days. All
Constitutional & Government functionaries and their staff members are exempted from these
instructions, if they are asymptomatic.
All asymptomatic passengers arriving at Delhi from other states will have to
undergo 7 days of home quarantine.

6. Goa

All asymptomatic passengers are exempted from quarantine.

7. Gujarat

As per the directive from the State Govt. of Gujarat, it is mandatory for all the passengers
traveling from all other states and arriving at any location in Gujarat to have the RTPCR
Negative Report, where the test is conducted within 72 hours of flight departure.
Only Ahmedabad airport is having a facility to take the RTPCR test on arrival, at passenger’s
own cost. In this case a passenger is detained at Ahmedabad airport till the result of the test is
issued, which normally takes 6 to 7 hours. Passenger with positive test result has to undergo
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Institutional Quarantine at passenger’s own expense.
No other airport in Gujarat is having this facility of taking the test on arrival, hence it is
mandatory for all the passengers arriving in Gujarat from all other states to carry the Negative
RTPCR report.
It is mandatory for all passengers arriving at Surat to install the SMC Covid-19 Tracker App:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.smc.covidout and must also fill the Novel
Corona Self Reporting form -
http://www.suratmunicipal.gov.in/EServices/Covid19SelfReporting

8. Haryana

All asymptomatic passengers arriving at Haryana will have to undergo home quarantine for
14 days.

9. Himachal Pradesh
It is mandatory for all passengers arriving at Himachal Pradesh to install the Aarogya Setu
App and also to register, at least 48 hours prior to their arrival, on the Covid E-pass portal
here - http://covid19epass.hp.gov.in. Army/CAPF personnel are not required to register on E-
pass software if they have arrived to join back their official duty. They can enter/pass through
the state on the strength of their official identity cards.

All asymptomatic passengers arriving from all states will be exempted from quarantine, if
they are carrying a COVID negative certificate through RT/PCR test or Trunaat/CB Naat
test by an ICMR-authorized lab issued not earlier than 96 hours from the time when the
sample was taken. However, they must take adequate measures like wearing a mask, social
distancing etc to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
All other asymptomatic passengers arriving from cities with high prevalence of Covid-19 will
have to undergo 7 days of institutional quarantine, followed by 7 days of home quarantine.
Passengers arriving from cities with high prevalence of Covid-19 may only be exempted
from institutional quarantine if they are travelling for exceptional and compelling reasons
such as human distress, pregnancy, death in family, serious illness and parent(s) accompanied
by children below 10 years. However, these passengers will then have to undergo home
quarantine for 14 days.
All asymptomatic passengers arriving from other states will have to undergo 14 days of home
quarantine.
Institutional and home quarantine will be as per the directives of the health department
issued from time to time.
Asymptomatic residents of Himachal Pradesh who had travelled to other states for medical,
business or work purposes, may be exempted from quarantine if they exit or re-enter the state
within 48 hrs.

10. Jammu and Kashmir

All passengers arriving at Jammu & Kashmir will have to undergo Covid-19 antigen test
through RT-PCR method or Rapid Antigen test.
Until the test results are reported negative, all passengers with contactable phone number
with updated Aarogya Setu App will have to undergo home quarantine for 14 days.

Passengers without contactable phone number with updated Aarogya Setu App will have to
undergo institutional quarantine for 14 days or till their test results are reported negative, in
which case they will be released for home quarantine.
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Asymptomatic Business travelers carrying a confirmed return ticket, confirmed hotel booking
and their Business ID will be exempted from quarantine and will be permitted to proceed to their
hotel from the airport after undergoing the Covid-19 test. However they will have to ensure that
their interactions would be restricted to the business purpose only and they must also maintain
details of persons they interact with during their stay at Jammu & Kashmir.

Personnel of Defense and Central Armed Police Forces returning on duty, including transit
labour hired by BRO to go to Ladakh, will be exempted from Covid-19 antigen testing. They
will be permitted to proceed for institutional quarantine at their respective units as per their
internal procedures.

11 Jharkhand
Passengers arriving from Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab will require RT-PCR/RAT
negative report from ICMR accredited labs done within last 72hrs. RT-PCR timeline starts
from the swab collection time.
Passengers without RT-PCR report will be tested at the airport.
RTPCR/RAT test will be free of cost at arrivals.
Random RAT test will be done for other sector passengers.
For GAYA only-
Passengers arriving from Madhya Pradesh, Delhi & NCR, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala &
Punjab will require Vaccination Certificate/RT-PCR/RAT negative report from ICMR
accredited labs. RT-PCR timeline starts from the swab collection time. Following are the
scenarios for valid RAT/RT-PCR report / Vaccination certificate
Rapid Antigen Report within 24 hours.
RT-PCR report within 72 hours.
14 days past certificate of both doses of COVID vaccination.
Rapid Antigen Facility is available at arrivals (free of cost)

12 Karnataka

It is COMPULSORY for passengers arriving from Punjab, Chandigarh, Kerala &

Maharashtra to carry a COVID negative report from an ICMR approved lab not earlier than
72 hours of arrival into the state of Karnataka.
Permitted exemptions for negative RT-PCR certificate:
(i) Constitutional functionaries and health care professionals.
(ii) Children below 2 years
(iii) In dire emergency situation (death in the family, medical treatment etc.,)
- the passenger's swab shall be collected on arrival in Karnataka with
necessary details like phone number, address etc., duly verifying from his
ID card. On receipt of the RT-PCR test report, further action will be taken
as per the State protocol.
Also, it has been informed by District Surveillance Unit, Dakshina Kannada District,
Mangalore, that, in case any of the passengers arriving from Mumbai, do not carry RTPCR
certificate, they have to be compulsorily tested at the checking point at Mangalore airport at
a cost to be borne by the passengers.
All other asymptomatic passengers arriving at Karnataka are exempted from quarantine.
However, they must self-monitor themselves for 14 days.

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13 Kerala

As per regulations imposed by State Governments, all passengers arriving at Kerala must
have a valid e-pass after registering their details in state’s COVID Jagratha portal,
without which the passenger will not be permitted to exit the airport -
https://covid19jagratha.kerala.nic.in/home/addMedicalEmergencyPass.

RT-PCR test done within 48 hours prior to entering the state is compulsory for all travellers.
Those undertaking RTPCR on arrival shall be in isolation till report is available.
All asymptomatic passengers to undergo home quarantine for 14 days. Passengers visiting Kerala for
less than7 days are exempted from home quarantine provided they obtain an entry pass for short
visit from the Jagratha portal here https://covid19jagratha.kerala.nic.in/home/shortVisit
If a passenger is travelling further to Tamil Nadu or any other State/UT, it is mandatory to
obtain an e-pass for Tamil Nadu or any other State/UT depending upon his/her final
destination, without which entry will be denied at the state border.

14 Ladakh
All asymptomatic passengers arriving at Ladakh will be exempted from quarantine if they
are carrying a Covid-19 negative certificate by an ICMR-authorized lab issued within 48
hours before arrival. All other passengers will have to undergo mandatory home quarantine
for 7 days.

Workers are advised to arrive at Ladakh through contractor(s) or Labour agencies and will
be exempted from quarantine if they are also carrying a Covid-19 negative certificate by an
ICMR-authorized lab issued within 48 hours before arrival. If they do not carry this report,
they will have to undergo 7 days of institutional quarantine followed by a Covid-19 test.

15. Madhya Pradesh

Negative RT-PCR certificate, not older than 48 hours, shall be compulsory for the flights
arriving in Indore from Maharashtra. Passengers without RT-PCR test report will be
compulsorily tested on arrival at Indore Airport with a charge which will be borne by the
passengers.
Negative RT-PCR certificate, not older than 72 hours, shall be compulsory for the flights
arriving at Bhopal from Maharashtra. Passengers without RT-PCR test report will be
compulsorily tested on arrival at Bhopal Airport with a charge which will be borne by the
passengers.
All other asymptomatic passengers arriving into Madhya Pradesh are exempted from
quarantine and must self-monitor their health for at least 14 days.

16. Maharashtra

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It is mandatory for passengers arriving from NCR/DELHI, Kerala, Rajasthan, Gujarat & Goa
to carry RT-PCR report not earlier than 72 hours before scheduled time of landing.
Passengers not having RT-PCR report would have to undergo RT-PCR test at the airport at

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their own expense.

All other asymptomatic passengers who intend to stay in Maharashtra for a period of 7 days or
less shall be exempted from mandatory quarantine. Such passengers will have to share the
details of their return/onward journey.

Other asymptomatic passengers will have to undergo home quarantine for 14 days. To
seek exemption from home quarantine, it is mandatory to upload the request online at
https://portal.mcgm.gov.in , before your travel. Application sent for exemption via emails
will not be accepted.
All arriving passengers to retain their boarding cards as proof of travel once they
leave the terminal till, they reach their final destination.

17. Manipur

All persons entering Manipur irrespective of place of origin shall be allowed entry only on
mandatory production of a negative RAT/RT-PCR/TrueNat/CB-NAAT COVID-19 test report
taken within 72 hours from arrival in Manipur.
18. Meghalaya

RT-PCR test for all arriving passengers on chargeable basis incase passenger is not carrying
a negative COVID-19 report on arrival (not earlier than 72 hours prior to arrival).
All passengers must register on the State portal to generate a unique e-invite
http://meghalayaonline.gov.in/covid/testing.htm
19. Mizoram

Passengers without negative COVID report from ICMR recognized lab will be subjected to
screening at medical counter at entry point by RAPID ANTIGEN TEST.Test should be within
96 hours from arrival.

20. Nagaland

All passengers arriving at Dimapur by their flights must have their RT-PCR (negative) report
with them from an ICMR approved lab not earlier than 72 hours of arrival into the state of
Nagaland. All travellers are required to install and register on the nCovid Nagaland visitors app
and fill the Self Declaration form.
07 days of Institutional Quarantine followed by 14 days of Home Quarantine for allother
passengers. Below categories of passengers shall be exempted from Institutional Quarantine
subject to 28 days of Home Quarantine with active surveillance

1. Person above the age of 60 years,

2. Children & parents of children 10 years & below
3. Pregnant women & accompanying spouse.

21. Odisha
All passengers coming from West Bengal alighting at Bhubaneswar/ Jharsuguda Airport shall
be mandatorily subjected to institutional quarantine / paid quarantine for 14 days.
Any person who has been successfully vaccinated (two doses) and produces certificate to the
effect or tested Negative (-ve) in RTPCR test (report to be produced) within 48 hours of entering
Odisha, may be allowed home quarantine for 14 days.
All other passengers de-boarding at BPI Airport, Bhubaneswar have to produce mandatory RT-PCR

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 negative report which must have done maximum 72 hrs prior to landing at Bhubaneswar or Final dose
vaccination certificate.
Screening as per COVID protocol & on-site Rapid Antigen Test for all symptomatic
passengers arriving from the states of Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Chhattisgarh,
Maharashtra, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab & Chhattisgarh. 7 days of mandatory home
isolation for all passengers arriving from the states of Maharashtra, Kerala, Madhya
Pradesh,Punjab & Chhattisgarh.
22 Punjab

All passengers landing at Punjab must download and register themselves on the Cova
App https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.gov.punjab.cova&hl=en_IN before
their travel.

All asymptomatic passengers arriving at Punjab will have to undergo home quarantine for 14
days.

23 Rajasthan

It is mandatory for all passengers arriving at Rajasthan to install the Aarogya Setu App.

All passengers arriving Jaipur by their flights must have their RT-PCR (negative) report with
them from an ICMR approved lab not earlier than 72 hours of arrival into the state of Rajasthan.
In case any passenger lands at Jaipur airport without RT-PCR report, he will have to undergo
RT-PCR test at airport and will be home quarantine till the time report comes and if report is
positive passenger will be home quarantine for 14 days as per State Govt. guidelines. In case
passenger does not belong to Jaipur or Rajasthan (Tourist, Businessman), he will may have to
make his own arrangements for getting quarantine. Medical team and other Govt. agencies will
keep his record/track till the time he is quarantine.

24 Tamil Nadu

COVID Testing will be done to symptomatic persons coming from Maharashtra & Kerala.

All passengers arriving into Tamil Nadu must obtain a mandatory TN e-pass by registering
on https://tnepass.tnega.org before their travel.

It is mandatory for all passengers arriving in Coimbatore to have Auto E-Pass & also carrya
negative RT-PCR report not earlier than 72 hours from the time of departure. The same is not
applicable for passengers arriving from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh & Puducherry.
In case the passenger arrives without RT-PCR report, COVID testing shall be done free of
cost at Coimbatore airport.
7 days of Home Quarantine & 07 days of self monitoring for all passengers arriving
into Tamil Nadu from Maharashtra & Kerala.
Other asymptomatic passengers from all states, apart from Maharashtra and
Gujarat,must undergo home quarantine for 14 days.
Symptomatic passengers will be required to go for Institutional Quarantine till the
time COVID test results are available, at the discretion of Health officials.

25 Telangana

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It is mandatory for all passengers to install the Aarogya Setu App.

All asymptomatic passengers arriving at Telangana are exempted from quarantine.

However, they must self-monitor their health for at least 14 days.

26 Tripura
Effective 24th April 2021, negative test report for COVID-19 done by RT-PCR/True
NAAT/CBNAAT of 72 hours prior to journey for entry into the state is mandatory. Otherwise, the
concerned passenger will undergo testing at the entry point as per the State Government norms.

All the passengers coming by air from Maharashtra will be mandatorily tested by Rapid
Antigen Test (RAT) for COVID-19.In addition to this, all the passengers coming from
outside of India and at least 10% ofpassengers coming from other parts of India will be
tested for COVID-19.
The test will be done by state health officials & passengers do not need to pay
for the swab test. All Symptomatic passengers shall undergo 14 days
Quarantine.

27 Uttarakhand
COVID Test will be done (free of cost) for passengers arriving from
Maharashtra, Kerala & Gujarat. Passengers with positive COVID result will
be sent to quarantine center for further processing .
Official of Uttarakhand on return to state after 5 days shall get the COVID-19
test done.

No quarantine for travelers coming to Uttarakhand with stay less than 7 days. Visitors will
provide residence/stay address to authorities.

Home quarantine for visitors coming for more than 7 days.

10 days of Institutional quarantine for Army & paramilitary personal.

Govt official from state & center, Judges of Supreme & High court and other judicial
officers, MP’s & MLA of Utarakhand & support staff are exempted from quarantine.

All passengers will be exempted from home quarantine if they arrive with RT-
PCR/TrueNAT/CBNAAT/Antigen test with negative report mot more than 96hrs before
arrival. This is not mandatory.

All passengers travelling to Uttarakhand need to register (Mandatory) on state

website: http://smartcitydehradun.uk.gov.in

28 Uttar Pradesh
It is mandatory for all passengers arriving at Uttar Pradesh to install the Aarogya
SetuApp and register on https://reg.upcovid.in
Passengers arriving from Kerala and Maharashtra will require RT-PCR negative report
from ICMR accredited labs done within last 72hrs.

If the passengers are not carrying the RT-PCR negative report, then they will undergo the
“RAPID ANTIGEN TEST” at Varanasi Airport.

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 Any passengers found with SYMPTOMS and not carrying the RT-PCR negative report will
only undergo “RT-PCR test” at Varanasi Airport.

Both RAPID ANTIGEN & RT-PCR test will be free of cost by the state authorities.
All passengers will undergo14 days of Home Quarantine. Passengers exiting Uttar Pradesh
within 7 days of arrival shall be exempted from mandatory quarantine subject to validation of
return/onward travel.
All other asymptomatic passengers arriving at Uttar Pradesh are exempted from
quarantineif they are in the state for 7 days or less. Such passengers will have to carry
the details of their return journey.

29 West Bengal

Asymptomatic passengers will be permitted to leave the airport with the advice that
theyshall self-monitor their health for 14 days.

West Bengal does not quarantine asymptomatic passengers.

If a person is on an official duty and is tested negative for COVID-19, he/she will
beallowed to perform the duty & return without any restrictions.

It is mandatory for all passengers arriving into West Bengal to fill-up and submit the declaration
form using the Sandhane App developed by H&FW Department of WestBengal.Please download
the App here: http://74.50.58.66/systems/Sandhane/1.2/Sandhane_Gen.apk

NOTE: As per current update, it is mandatory for passengers coming from Maharashtra,
Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana to have a RTPCR Negative Test done within 72 hours
ofdeparture of flight.
Children are not exempted from RTPCR Test. Infants (0-24 months) who don’t occupy a
seatare exempted.

People carrying Vaccination Certificate are also not been exempted from Testing